Proceedings of
the Annual Meeting

Notice of Annual Meeting

Pursuant to Article IV, Section 2 of the
bylaws of the corporation, and by designation
of the Interim Chairman, the annual meeting of
the members of the ANGLICAN USE SOCIETY,
otherwise known as Anglicanorum Coetibus
Society, will be held at St. Thomas More
Church, 118 Theodore St, Scranton PA 18508 on
Sunday, September 4, 2016 at 11:30 a.m., for
the following purposes:

FIRST: To receive such reports as may be made
by the Interim Chairman and other Officers and
members of the Society;

SECOND: To elect officers and board members
to serve for the next three years; and

THIRD: To transact such other business as may
properly come before the meeting.

Your presence in person, via SKYPE, or by
proxy is requested.

Dated: June 29, 2016,
C. David Burt, Secretary

(Should you be a member of the Anglican
Use Society - otherwise known as the
Anglicanorum Coetibus Society - and have not
received an official invitation and ballot
paper by post by the middle of July, please
contact us and we will send you a ballot.)

The Anglicanorum Coetibus Society is to
hold a conference in Houston on September
21-23, 2017

At the most recent board meeting of the
Anglicanorum Coetibus Society (ACS), which
took place by Skype conference on June 24th
(June 25th in Australia), it was confirmed
that the next ACS Conference will be held on
Thursday September 21st to Saturday September
23rd, 2017 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of
Walsingham in Houston, Texas. The Ordinary of
the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St.
Peter, Bishop Steven Lopes, has given his
approval as well as the pastor of the
Cathedral parish.

The theme of the conference will be "The
Anglican Patrimony to the Catholic Church" and
several well-known speakers are to be
expected. It is also planned to arrange some
kind of video link so that people in the
United Kingdom and hopefully also in Australia
can follow the conference.

This conference represents the continuation
of the series of annual conferences held
between 2004 and 2012 by the Anglican Use
Society, as the Society was then called.

The Annual Meeting of the ACS will take place
this year on September 4th at 11:30 a.m.,
Eastern North American time, at the St. Thomas
More Catholic Church in Scranton,
Pennsylvania, where the Society's current
interim vice-chairman, Father Eric Bergman, is
pastor. Again attendance is possible via
Skype, and anyone interested in participating
in this way should let the ACS have their
Skype user name in good time so that they can
be added to the conference.

Five new directors will be elected at the
Annual Meeting to supplement the four current
directors whose term expires in 2018. The ACS
is currently looking for two new board members
(preferably a laywoman and a priest) from the
UK and one layperson from Australia to make
the board more international and to replace
the British director who recently had to
resign for health reasons. Any person
interested should contact the current interim
chairman at davidmurphy@gmx.de.

Board Meeting of the Anglicanorum Coetibus
Society

May 20, 2016

For a few months now there has been little or
no news from the Anglicanorum Coetibus Society
(the former Anglican Use Society) because
unfortunately for reasons of health and other
personal reasons, three of our directors have
had to resign, including the President,
Stephen Cavanaugh, and the Vice-President,
Father Allan Hawkins, both of whom we should
like to thank from the bottom of our hearts
for the generous and important work they have
done for the Society over many years.

Unfortunately their retirement meant that the
work of the ACS came more or less to a halt
for several months. At our Skype board meeting
on 20th May (which is 21st May in Australia)
we "met" over four time zones, from 3 pm
Central North American time to 6 am the next
morning Eastern Australian time. I was
appointed interim chairman, Fr. Eric Bergman
of Scranton, PA, was named interim
vice-chairman and a procedure was put in place
to recruit new board members by the next board
meeting in five weeks' time.

Plans were concretised to organise a
conference in the USA next year on "What is
the Anglican Patrimony to the Catholic
Church?". The possibility of organising
parallel events in other countries which can
be linked with the main conference by
electronic media is being examined.

The first issue of our new journal Shared
Treasure on the nature and role of the
Anglican Patrimony is to appear later this
year, and the project to update the Anglican
Use Gradual after the publication of the Divine
Worship Missal is already well in hand
and can most likely be finished this year.

Those interested in joining the Society or
assisting us in any way are welcome to contact
me at davidmurphy@gmx.de.